Car-coupling



UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

NEWELL P. GOWELL, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

CAR-COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 295,618, dated March 25, 1884.

Application filed July 3, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, N EWELL P. COWELL, of Cleveland, in the. county of Guyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oar-Couplers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to car-couplers, but more especially to improvements in stirrups for holding the draw-head; and it consists in certain features of construction, and in combination of parts hereinafter described, and pointed out in thecla-ims. I have shown my new device for a stirrup in connection with a car-coupler on which I have already obtained a patent; but the stirrup is equally applicable to any hook-coupler. Heretofore the class of hook-couplers have been held to their place laterally by means of a long fiat and elliptic spring, that was expensive to make, diflicult to hold to its proper place, and required an extra plate and bolts to attach it to. the car. In my new device a cheaper and better spring is provided, and its seat and the means of attachment are all supplied by the peculiar construction of the stirrup and without extra cost.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of chamber that forms a seat for one .end of the coiled spring (2. The other end of the spring embraces and is held in place by the pin 1), or projection, and presses against the plate I), that in turn butts against the draw-head and i has attached the pin bf. This plate D supports the draw-head, as shown, while the said spring holds the draw-head in its proper position laterally. Thus stirrups may be used in attaching any of the different kinds of hook- 5o couplers to any of the difierent classes of cars, and its use will greatly improve this class of couplers. 7

What I claim is i v 1. In an automatic car-coupler, the part D, adapted to support the draw-head, and pro vided with a boss formed integral therewith, and containing a cylindrical chamber that is adapted to furnish a seat for a coiled spring that actuates' the draw-head laterally, substan- 6o tially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In an automatic car-coupler, the part D, substantially as described, and provided with a hollow boss formedintegral therewith, and. adapted to support the spring d in proper relative position to the draw-head, substantially as described, and for the purpose specified.

3. In an automatic car-coupler, the combination, with the part D, provided with the boss cl and the spring 01, of the draw-head B, the plate I), and the pin 6, or projection, substantially as shown and described;

Intestimony whereof I sign this specification, in the presence of two witnesses, this 25th day of June, 1883. v

. 'NEwELL P. cowELL.

Witnesses:

CHAS. H. DORER, 'GEo. W. KING. 

